Thy will be done

As I walked down the stairs this morning in the haze of waking up and the incredulity of the hour I found that the words of the apostle's creed were swimming around my head. This was quite by accident and completely unintentional. What surprised me with this was it I praying them or being prayed by them? Quite unintentionally I am finding that through this action of reading, reflecting and return a deepening happening that I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe this is the reason for the daily repetition of the SHEMA* by our forefathers? Maybe persons daily focused on God not because they were so connected but, as the means to connect. Maybe it is not the random thought but the practice of repetition that becomes so powerful. Strangely enough this gives me hope because if this is so, it's not about getting good overnight but, about plodding and trudging toward God.


* Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.
Blessed be the Name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
And these words that I command you today shall be in your heart.
And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of themwhen you sit at home, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.